Wendy
was born in Southern California on March of 1974. From her earliest
memories, Wendy was drawn into the world of art, gathering her
earliest inspiration from her mother’s drawings. Wendy would
watch her mother draw and then try her hand at it as her mother
would patiently guide her. During high school, Wendy practically
lived in the art room and would be caught continually drawing
during her other classes.
During her university years, Wendy refined
and expanded her skills through her own studies. After taking
a number of college art classes, she decided not to major in art
so that her passion and love for art would stay fresh and uncontrived.
Wendy did receive a degree in English and M.A. in Education from
Pepperdine University.
Today, Wendy juggles her time between
painting, running her art business and teaching high school art.
Along with all this, Wendy finds time to relax, ice skate and
snowboard with her husband and soul mate Brian; who she married
in August of 2003, during an outdoor evening, candlelit garden
wedding, complete with her very own faerie flower girl. Wendy
paints and works out of her home studio in the O.C. where she
lives with her hubby and little dachshund Woolfgang.
Wendy’s favorite medium is watercolor,
to which she adds her own personal, ethereal touch not seen in
traditional watercolors. Wendy chooses to focus her paintings
almost exclusively on the main figure, with the background serving
as a flow of billowing colors, with which to move the viewers’
eye along the image. Occasionally she will deviate from her trademark
free flowing ethereal backgrounds, to a background wash in salt,
with a touch of faerie dust.
To invoke the muse, Wendy favors cold,
gray, raining days and evenings by candle light, along with the
music of Tori Amos, Loreena McKennitt, Emilie Autumn, and various
movie soundtracks. “Painting for me is a very spiritual
experience. It is like breathing, for I require both for living.
I wish for my art to bring beauty, reflection, mystery, contemplation
and the feeling of the divine to people’s lives."